I’m going to try out a new thing here and every week or so give indie authors a platform to get people to look at their work. As an indie publisher myself, I know how important and hard it is to get yourself in front of an audience to even hear about your work and I hope this Indie Books columns will offer a platform for them.
What you’ll be hearing (or reading) is pitches from the authors in their own words what they’re about and why you should check out their work.
Since digital publishing allows for easy and free sampling, you’ll be able to read plenty of any book before deciding to buy it, and maybe Big Shiny Robot! can help indies get readers to them.
For our innagural column here, we’ll be looking at “The Novel: Aeternae Aetatis by Cyer Law” and hearing from the “editor” of the project, Eric Sanderson.
The Novel: Aeternae Aetatis by Cyer Law
The title is more descriptive than a cursory glance suggests. It is the newness that novelty conjures up with a Latin subtitle that extends the description: “of an endless generation.” As a whole, I could have re-titled it: The Beginning of an Endless Generation. As the editor of an autobiography, I felt the reader would have been disserviced by a title of lesser portent.
The Novel is a fantasy cum science fiction: an autobiographical account taking place in a fantasy realm. Presenting this stratified world is a marketing nightmare as every facet I could reveal, seems to possess a spoiler. The story, thus, must be presented akin to a dream.
In the waking day, a future world is progressing along a path where the titans of society: Sovereign Nations, Non-Governmental Organizations and the Central Government of America, are locked in a destructive battle of informatics. The primary agenda: to form and seize control of a singularity government, a one world nation.
In the blissful night, a surreal dreamscape belies the waking world’s desperate struggle. A place where the convoluted thoughts of a person’s day are distilled, rearticulated, and reconfigured into a fantasy. A tendril here, a reminiscence there, appear to loosely connect this dreamscape with the fears and desires of the cultural titans battling in the waking world.
The Novel attempts to elucidate a bridge in the gap between the waking world’s destructive destiny and our hope filled dreams. This bridge, at first, may appear as a disassociation; an identity crisis; an aspersion cast on reality; may be necessary, an unavoidable contractual term for reality. The causality of the waking dream, which links the night and day, is a tenuous structure. Over time, experience, and wandering, the link may become sufficiently re-enforced, such that ignoring the interdependence of the two would be catastrophic.
This endless generation would only happen once. The dynamic series of interdependent threads which link so many people in this world to their dreams, to their interactions, may be grand enough to stave off chaotic dissolution of governance. But in the process, it would hinder the free will of humanity to alter its future.
If, however, the future is non-determinate, and non-uniquely organized, then we are presented with the full-scale ability to alter reality at the very moment when our existence is precariously balanced on an unstable equilibrium.
The precipice where The Novel unfolds is the precursor to a moment in history where chaos has an equal chance of solidifying destiny and determinism, or destroying consciousness with fragmentation and entropy. The Novel presents a temporal milieu where either outcome is equally probable, and the waking world collides with its ineffable dreamscape.
These are the themes explored, in a dream-like manner, in The Novel: Aeternae Aetatis by Cyer Law. If you wish to discover more, please watchWhitespace and visit TheNovel.org.
Prolocutor, LoreFolk, LLC,
Eric Sanderson
If you decide to check it out, you can pick it up on Amazon, as well.
If you have an indie book that’s more on the geeky side that you think the audience of Big Shiny Robot! would benefit from hearing about, feel free to drop me a line – editor (at) bigshinyrobot (dot) com